Show x CREDIT IS DUE GIVEN TOO v STORIES OF OLD HICKORY Years Tears In his Memoirs of a Hundred Outlook Dr now b being ing published in the some Borne orthe of or Edward Everett Hale recounts circulated in Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- the tales which were ton In derision of the rough and President He says In the anecdote I 1 remember very well to which Mrs Jackson was supposed give an account of ot a lung fever of which I think she died It was declared and believed In Northern circles that she I Isad said sad The kicked the off and lind I kotcheS cold T r should not tell the story but to record the resent resent- ment of a rue t-rue true lady a relative of my myOwn myown myown of own who rad nad ad seen all the the best courts of Europe and who protested protested protested pro pro- tested to me that Mrs Jackson was a alady alady alady lady through and through In breeding as in daily dally manners My friend quoted the anecdote which I have told only as Illustration of the bitterness of ot partisanship partisanship partisanship parti parti- U at that time On the the other hand if It any story can be received at atthe atthe the distance of ot one person from the spot of which the the story Is told the story which I will now record Is true The daughter of a Massachusetts Senator told me that In her younger life she went with her father to one of the regul regular regular reg reg- ul ular r dinners at the White House Gen Jackson himself took them out to the dinner table There was some talk about the light of the table and the General said to her The chanticleer does not burn well She was so determined determined determined deter deter- mined that sh she should h uld not misunderstand misunderstand misunderstand stand him that she pretended not not to hear him and asked him what he said To which his distinct reply was The The chanticleer does not burn well |